Walker County, GA Animal Ordinances: Cat Rules (2026)

Walker County Code § 6-24(a) makes it unlawful to keep any animal, including a cat, on unincorporated county property in a condition that constitutes a public nuisance animal or a menace to public health or safety. Subsection (b) lists ten conditions that qualify, and item (2) specifically names cats: any dog or cat in any section of a park or public recreation area is a public nuisance unless controlled by a leash or similar physical restraint. Other listed conditions that reach cats include repeatedly running at large under item (1), damaging, soiling, or defecating on another's property under item (3), and being kept in numbers or facilities that are offensive or dangerous to public health under item (10).

Section 6-21 separately defines a stray cat as any cat not claimed by anyone as its owner, which affects how Animal Control handles impoundment. There is no county cat-licensing requirement and no feral-colony or trap-neuter-return ordinance in the code; those subjects are simply absent. Enforcement runs through Animal Control Officers, who may impound a public nuisance animal under Section 6-110(a)(4) or issue a citation to Magistrate Court, and Section 6-148 sets the fine schedule for violations of this division, including nuisance-animal citations involving cats.